Security Architect and Developer with interests in Reverse Engineering, and IoT. CISSP, CCSP certified (it took some effort because the exams were 3hrs long!!)
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AI Security Agents in the SOC: Co-Worker or Co-Risk?
As the number of AI agents increase in corporations, we can’t expect that cybersecurity would be the only domain left behind. Many VC-backed startups like Simbian have been launched, and Google also announced a partnership with Wiz for cybersec agents, etc. AI Agents vs Automation: What is the difference Firstly, what is an AI agent, and why is it different from our plain ol’ automation? Automation follows a set of predefined rules to complete tasks—fast, consistent, and predictable....
Cyber-resilience in the Age of AI
AI Agents and assistants help us countless number of times to automate boring tasks, complete tasks for us when we’re over-loaded etc. But, expecting that they never falter or have the capability to fix bad instructions is a bit much isn’t it? Agents mess up even if the percentage may be >1% but what then? And what if the consequence of the mistake are too extreme? It’s always best to have a backup or fallback option and that’s what we’ll discuss....
How to setup a Dev Container on VS Code?
This is a beginner guide to set up a dev container. A development container (or dev container for short) basically is an isolated environment with it’s own set of tool that you can use for development. It is especially helpful for languages like Python where they have complex environment management setups (thanks but no thanks pip, anaconda, venv!) or if you do too many projects and don’t want to setup all the components from scratch every time....
How to disable Co-pilot in Windows 11?
This article is not updated and may include outdated stuff. I’ll update it when I can. Microsoft has released a couple of AI-based features/functionalities in Windows 11 and 10. Currently, it is available as “Preview” with limited capabilities in select regions. Some more context about Copilot for those who are not aware about it: What is Windows Co-pilot? Let’s understand this first with some history. Microsoft is one of the major shareholder in OpenAI- the creator of ChatGPT models....
What to do after installing Arch?
Wondering what to do next after installing the basic version of Arch? Here’s a checklist! PS: Somethings are already covered in my previous post (Arch installation guide), I’ll add a * to those items General Edition: Sorting the mirrors*- follow the instructions to re-order your mirrors by fastest speed. I have used Reflector. Install Sound system and Display Server (Xorg or Wayland)* Set up Window manager or Desktop environment like GNOME, Plasma, Xfce etc* Create user directory files sudo pacman -S xdg-user-dirs xdg-user-dirs-update Configure Pacman Using the below command, you can open the pacman configuration file and uncomment the necessary lines: -allow ParallelDownloads under [options] -add colors -enable VerbosePkgLists to view name, version and size of target packages formatted -CleanMethod = KeepCurrent under[options] to clean up the cache so that only outdated tarballs are deleted -NoExtract (Guidelines with examples) sudo nano /etc/pacman....